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Hänsel und Gretel at Palace for Fine Arts

Dates: (12/15/2016 - 12/22/2016 )

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Palace for Fine Arts


23, rue Ravenstein
Brussels,Brussels 1000

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Phone: +32 (0)2 229 12 11

Tickets: €28.00 - €112.00

Running Time: 2 hours 10' (1 interval)

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A cinematic puppet show has Hansel and Gretel hopping and skipping to the melody

‘What enchanting humour, what fine simplicity of melody, what skill and freedom in the orchestration, what mastery in the ensemble, what flourishing inventiveness, what rich polyphony, and all so original, new, and so authentically German!’ Richard Strauss could not contain his enthusiasm when he saw the score of Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel, whose first performance he would himself conduct in 1893. This Märchenspiel, based on the well-known Grimm fairy tale, masterfully combines the simplicity of a German folk song with the wealth of colour and dramatic tension of Wagner’s musical dramas, and was for this reason laughingly called a Kinderstubenweihfestspiel (‘festival play for the consecration of a nursery’) by the composer himself. The Chicago-based company Manual Cinema combines film projections, shadow puppetry, and live acting in an immersive family experience.

Discover, during the break and after the performances the set-up of Manual Cinema, situated behind the Loge royale.

Cast and Creative team for Hänsel und Gretel at Palace for Fine Arts

Music direction ¦ Lothar Koenigs
Live projections ¦ Manual Cinema
Children’ s chorus direction ¦ Denis Menier
Peter ¦ Dietrich Henschel
Gertrud ¦ Natascha Petrinsky
Hänsel ¦ Gaëlle Arquez
Gretel ¦ Talia Or
Die Knusperhexe ¦ Georg Nigl
Sandmännchen & Taumännchen ¦ Ilse Eerens
Orchestra ¦ La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra
Chorus ¦ La Monnaie Children Choir, La Maîtrise
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